How to Treat a Cold in Bamboo Rats? Detailed Treatment Methods
Symptoms of a Cold in Bamboo Rats
Listlessness, reduced feed intake or complete loss of appetite, sneezing, runny nose, cold tail and limbs; if accompanied by lung infection, coughing or a "bellows" sound may occur.
Treatment Methods for Colds in Bamboo Rats
1. Penicillin 200,000 units (150,000 for small bamboo rats, 200,000 for large bamboo rats), 0.5 ml dexamethasone, diluted with about 0.5-1 ml (0.5 for small bamboo rats, 1 for large bamboo rats) of a Chinese herbal injection (such as Shuanghuanglian, Beidoudansu and other heat-clearing and detoxifying Chinese herbs), then injected into the hind leg muscle (once a day for small bamboo rats, twice a day for large bamboo rats), inject for 2-3 days
2. Intramuscular injection of Shuanghuanglian injection and amoxicillin, with the dosage referring to the instructions.
Preventive Measures for Colds in Bamboo Rats
1. In damp and cold conditions or when the temperature difference between day and night is too large, warming measures should be strengthened to ensure the rat enclosure has enough bedding grass and prevent "draughts" from affecting the bamboo rats.
2. Before damp and cold weather or weather with a large temperature difference between day and night arrives, certain medications should be used for prevention, preferably Chinese herbal preparations (such as Banlangen or Astragalus polysaccharide).
3. As long as the air is fresh, windows should be closed in non-hot weather. Before domestication, bamboo rats live in burrows and are relatively sensitive to cold wind. In winter and spring, cold wind is the main cause of colds in the rats.